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E´CLOGEIS

E´CLOGEIS (ἐκλογεῖς),
Athenian collectors of taxes, were of two kinds. 1. Ordinary, who collected
the εἰσφορὰ under the ἡγεμόνεςτῶνσυμμοριῶν (Westermann, ap.
Pauly, s. v. ἐκλογεῖς, Harpocrat., Suid.):
called also ἐκλέγοντες, Dem. c.
Timocr. p. 713.40; 745.144. This was an ἀρχὴκληρωτή for which no property qualification was
required (Dem. c. Androt. p. 608.48) [EISPHORA]. 2. Extraordinary,
appointed when the tribute (φόρος) of the
allies fell into arrears, to supplement the action of the Hellenotamiae, its
regular administrators : these were chosen (ᾑρέθησαν) from the richer classes only, as an ἀρχὴχειροτονητή (Antiph. fr. 52, Blass; Lys. fr. 5 Bekk.=9 Scheibe
[both these in Harpocration]; Bekk. Anecd. 245, 33; C.
I. A. 1.38). This inscription dates from B.C. 446, and is
thought to allude to their first appointment; before that year only slight
traces of the enforcement of arrears occur. The Athenian power on land had
just been curtailed by the loss of Boeotia (447); and they made up for it by
a harsher exercise of their maritime empire. (Boeckh, P. E.
p. 156=Sthh.3 1.190; U. Köhler,
Urkunden und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des delisch-attischen
Bundes, pp. 132-3; Gilbert, Staatsalterth.
1.398.)